Featured free software in the debate of political parties – TeK.sapo

 
 
 Representatives of the government parties, PSD and CDS, used the meeting to list the programs and initiatives over the past years the executive has implemented or to tune in the case of the initiatives that were already on the ground promoted by previous governments. Monica Iron and Paulo Almeida, PSD and CDS respectively, also stressed that the cost-cutting program in the AP has allowed savings of 147 million euros.

The free software is one of the areas targeted in this program and had prominent space in the debate, with João Sá the Green and Michael James PCP to defend the need for a stronger use of this alternative in AP, but also considers that measures are needed to promote their use generally in society.

Michael James argued that the change should happen in schools where today “learn Microsoft” and “do not learn computer”. The deputy considers that a major obstacle to the use of free software is the unfamiliarity of users with alternatives to Microsoft software and that should change once in school education, because it has risks and helps to limit the market.

“We are creating a generation of hardware and software that consumers not take potential technology Party”, said Michael James, noting that today we do not know manipulate programming languages. We use proprietary programs that we can not move because it is forbidden, and there are legal consequences for it.

These restrictions, also defended the representative of the CFP, not only to prevent products that already exist are improved, but also prevent products are developed in areas which do not concern the companies from an economic point view. A logic that applies to the software but also to telecommunications and other services.

The representatives of the PSD and the CDS emphasized that the public measures have sought to promote the use of free software in some areas and set an example Map Citizen recently launched.

The increasing use of ICT in professional life (as the trivialization of company mobile phones, for example) and the impact it has on other spheres of life of citizens, was also the subject of debate, with Porfirio Silva, Deputy PS, to stress the issue and to consider that we are not getting the amount owed technology if we can not promote a balance between slick social and professional aspects. Also it considered that the issue “raises the same issues in relation to quality of work.” “The ability to create networks is not only technology is also social” and implies an evolution levels, said the deputy, in a meeting not attended by the Left Bloc.